Linea, the Game

What I will say about this game is you get what you paid for. Four levels for $2 is kinda rough, but there's trading cards and you pop achievements like they're candy, so it balances itself out. I've only spent around a half an hour on it as of writing and I feel confident that I could 100% this game in less than five. It feels silly saying this for an obscure indie project that's over eight years old at this point, but there's several places where the game could be improved. The game's visuals and gameplay remind me a lot of a non-VR Beat Saber, with the caveat that you need to avoid the things coming at you rather than hitting them. It feels like a rhythm game in that sense...but it's not really a rhythm game. There's no mechanic for timing your button presses to the song or anything like that, when it really feels like there should be. That, and the chiptune music kind of got on my nerves after a while. I guess I just wish there was more here. I think the premise and gameplay are solid enough as is, but outside of the achievements there's nothing that really grabs me about it, nothing that sucks me in and makes me want more the way other abstract "infinite" games like Tetris do. At $2 I'm not complaining (and even then I'm pretty sure I got this on sale, this is one of those games that I'm sure has been languishing in my Steam library for years), but I wish the game did a little bit more with its concept. I think there's potential in a sequel.